Overall good video! I worked for the TP&W from 1978 until taking severance pay in 1985. I saw the decline after CR removed Logansport from their customer routing guide and rate tariffs, which was our bread and butter (bridge traffic from ATSF Lomax/Ft. Madison to CR at Logansport) (also traffic received from our many Peoria area connections to CR at Logansport). It went from as many as 80-100 loads per day to less than 20, on our eastbound hotshot train no. 20. Good video, enjoyed it. Incidentally, you missed Alco C424’s no. 800-801 in your loco line up.
That's awesome, I live in Logansport and the TP&W trains go right by my house. Although not the old Alcos, it's still nice to hear the GP50s, GP15-1s, and SD40-2s roar by.
On hot summer nights, you'd hear that lift machine from a long way off, working the TP&W yard during the height of their Intermodal years. I would love to have seen the first years of their existence, when much of the line through East Peoria going east through Farmdale was, before the building of the Farmdale Dam - on the opposite side of Farm Creek. Many of the old bridge footings and/or abutments can still be seen today. So to can old roadbed remnants.
Yes, I remember that lift! Did you ever get close enough to the roundhouse to hear the bang bang bang of their steam pump? I can still hear it these many days gone bye. I worked in the roundhouse area as a crew caller, when they had it set up there. That job got moved around. It started out in the new operations center, next to the dispatchers office on the upper floor, then it moved to the lower floor, next to the control operator. This was during the Santa Fe era; this job received track warrants from the dispatcher and repeated them to the train. Later, they just became like dispatchers and gave them out, themselves. Then the callers moved over to the roundhouse area, to be closer to where the crews went on duty (they used to go on duty in the hallway between the caller and the control operator; then got moved to the roundhouse area).
Enjoyed!
Overall good video! I worked for
the TP&W from 1978 until taking severance pay in 1985. I
saw the decline after CR removed Logansport from their
customer routing guide and rate tariffs, which was our bread and butter (bridge traffic
from ATSF Lomax/Ft. Madison to CR at Logansport) (also traffic received from our many
Peoria area connections to CR at Logansport). It went from as many as 80-100 loads per day to less than 20, on our eastbound hotshot train no. 20.
Good video, enjoyed it.
Incidentally, you missed Alco
C424’s no. 800-801 in your loco line up.
That's awesome, I live in Logansport and the TP&W trains go right by my house. Although not the old Alcos, it's still nice to hear the GP50s, GP15-1s, and SD40-2s roar by.
I love stuff like this, thank you for sharing.
I remember green frog from national train day Toledo long ago.
I'm from Peoria Illinois, we would fish and hangout under that train bridge
On hot summer nights, you'd hear that lift machine from a long way off, working the TP&W yard during the height of their Intermodal years. I would love to have seen the first years of their existence, when much of the line through East Peoria going east through Farmdale was, before the building of the Farmdale Dam - on the opposite side of Farm Creek. Many of the old bridge footings and/or abutments can still be seen today. So to can old roadbed remnants.
Yes, I remember that lift! Did you ever get close enough to the roundhouse
to hear the bang bang bang of their
steam pump? I can still hear it these many days gone bye. I worked in the
roundhouse area as a crew caller, when
they had it set up there. That job got
moved around. It started out in the new
operations center, next to the dispatchers office on the upper floor, then it moved to the lower floor, next to
the control operator. This was during the Santa Fe era; this job received track warrants from the dispatcher and
repeated them to the train. Later, they
just became like dispatchers and gave them out, themselves. Then the callers
moved over to the roundhouse area, to
be closer to where the crews went on duty (they used to go on duty in the
hallway between the caller and the
control operator; then got moved to
the roundhouse area).
I sure miss living near this line. I was raised in El Paso.
This is likely the first video of footage from the original TP&W to be on TH-cam.
This video was produced by Green Frog in 1992.
Watched By An Old Geezer In 2024